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Order

1 Title

This order is the Arms (Military Style Semi-automatic Firearms—Pistol Grips) Order 2013.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force on 11 December 2013.

3 Interpretation

(1)In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,—

free-standing grip, in relation to a firearm, means a grip that,—

(a)is designed to be gripped by the whole or most of the trigger hand of a person firing the firearm; and

(b)is (if any trigger guard is disregarded) structurally connected to the firearm at only one point; and

(c)when deployed, protrudes from the firearm in a direction that is closer to being perpendicular to the barrel than to being parallel to it; and

(d)is neither—

(i)a thumb-hole stock; nor

(ii)a stock of the type commonly described as a Dragunov stock or Dragunov-style stock

grip, in relation to a firearm, means a component of the firearm that (whether or not it is also designed to serve some other purpose or purposes) is designed to be gripped by the trigger hand of a person while the person is firing the firearm.

(2)For the purposes of subclause (1), the direction in which the grip of a firearm protrudes from it must be determined in a general, practical sense,—

(a)having regard to the attitude that the trigger hand of a person firing the firearm (while gripping the grip as it is designed to be gripped) would assume while the person is firing the firearm; and

(b)without having regard to the shape of the grip.

4 Certain free-standing grips described as pistol grips for purposes of definition of military style semi-automatic firearm

For the purposes of the definition of military style semi-automatic firearm in section 2 of the Arms Act 1983, a free-standing grip of a semi-automatic firearm (other than a pistol) is a pistol grip.

Rebecca Kitteridge,Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.